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Spirit and Soul: Essays in Philosophical Psychology, Seco...

Casey, Edward S.
Spirit and Soul: Essays in Philosophical Psychology, Second Expanded Edition
In a clear and vivid manner, Edward S. Casey, one of Americas finest thinkers, takes up the great themes of imagination, remembering, perceiving, and place. A brilliant and useful account of basic philosophical problems, which are also major mysteries of the soul. By re-joining spirit and soul, this book is a major contribution to the fields of philosophy and psychology.

CHF 38.90

Earth-Mapping

Casey, Edward S.
Earth-Mapping
Dutch world maps of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with their decorative pictures and elaborate typography, stand in sharp contrast to the wholly practical maps of today, which emphasize precise detail and consistent scale. Art, since the Impressionist period, has seemingly moved in the opposite direction, toward a less realistic interpretation of the world around us. Edward S. Casey demonstrates that the disciplines of mapping and p...

CHF 36.50

Representing Place

Casey, Edward S.
Representing Place
You are here, a map declares, but of course you are not, any more than you truly occupy the vantage point into which a landscape painting puts you. How maps and paintings figure and reconfigure space‿as well as our place in it‿is the subject of Edward S. Casey‿s ambitious study, an exploration of how we portray the world and its many places. Casey‿s discussion ranges widely from Northern Sung landscape painting to nineteenth-century American a...

CHF 44.90

Up Against the Wall

Casey, Edward S.
Up Against the Wall
Using the U.S. wall at the border with Mexico as a focal point, two experts examine the global surge of economic and environmental refugees, presenting a new vision of the relationships between citizen and migrant in an era of "Juan Crow, " which systematically creates a perpetual undercaste.

CHF 48.50

Philosophy and Geography II: The Production of Public Space

Casey, Edward S. / Light, Andrew / Smith, Jonathan M.
Philosophy and Geography II: The Production of Public Space
Philosophers and geographers have converged on the topic of public space, fascinated and in many ways alarmed by fundamental changes in the way post-industrial societies produce space for public use, and in the way citizens of these same societies perceive and constitute themselves as a public. This volume advances this inquiry, making extensive use of political and social theory, while drawing intimate connections between political principles...

CHF 87.00

The World at a Glance

Casey, Edward S.
The World at a Glance
Edward S. Casey is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at SUNY¿Stony Brook. He is the author of several books, including Getting Back into Place (IUP, 1993), Imagining (IUP, 1976), and Remembering (IUP, 1987).

CHF 51.90

The World on Edge

Casey, Edward S
The World on Edge
From one of continental philosophy's most distinctive voices comes a creative contribution to spatial studies, environmental philosophy, and phenomenology. Edward S. Casey identifies how important edges are to us, not only in terms of how we perceive our world, but in our cognitive, artistic, and sociopolitical attentions to it. We live in a world that is constantly on edge, yet edges as such are rarely explored. Casey systematically describes...

CHF 58.50

The World on Edge

Casey, Edward S.
The World on Edge
Edward S. Casey is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at SUNY, Stony Brook. He is author of several books, including Getting Back into Place, Imagining, and Remembering. The World on Edge is a sequel to his book The World at a Glance.

CHF 135.00

Remembering, Second Edition

Casey, Edward S.
Remembering, Second Edition
Edward S. Casey provides a thorough description of the varieties of human memory, including recognizing and reminding, reminiscing and commemorating, body memory and place memory. The preface to the new edition extends the scope of the original text to include issues of collective memory, forgetting, and traumatic memory, and aligns this book with Casey's newest work on place and space. This ambitious study demonstrates that nothing in our liv...

CHF 113.00

Imagining

Casey, Edward S.
Imagining
Drawing on his own experiences of imagining, Edward S. Casey describes the essential forms that imagination assumes in everyday life. In a detailed analysis of the fundamental features of all imaginative experience, Casey shows imagining to be eidetically distinct from perceiving and defines it as a radically autonomous act, involving a characteristic freedom of mind. A new preface places Imagining within the context of current issues in philo...

CHF 39.90